Wall tie



April 28, 1936. KUBLANQW 2,039,171

WALL TIE Original Filed Dec. 10, 1931 Patented Apr. 28, 1936 UNHTED STATES PATENT OFFICE December 10, 1931.

This application October 20, 1933, Serial No. 694,442

'1 Claims. (or. 72 1o1) This invention relates to wall ties, more particularly to those of the type employed for supporting brick or tile facing in place against the side of a building and the present application is a continuation of an application filed by me jointly with Aaron Klein, serially numbered 580,036 and filed December 10, 1931.

One object of the invention is to provide a tie of such form that it will serve also as an aligning device for bricks, tile, and the like, to insure uniform and accurate spacing between the bricks of a course, and between the courses of bricks.

Another object of the invention is to provide a tie device that will more effectively anchor the mortar and bricks in place than in the case of various types of ties heretofore employed.

.Some of the forms which the invention may take are shown-in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary face view of a partially completed wall;

Figure 2 is a view taken on the line of Figure l; on an enlarged scale;

Figure 3 is a face view of one of the tie members of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a side view thereof;

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 3, but showing a modified form of tie;

Figure 6 is a side view thereof; and,

Figure 7 is an end View.

Referring first to Figures 1 to 4, I show a wall frame or sheathing 8 to which ties 9 are nailed for supporting bricks H3 in place.

The tie: 9 are of channel form, with theirfiange portions spread laterally at one end to form wings ll The web of the tie is extended beyond the wings H and bent laterally to form a tongue as indicated at l2.

The web of the channel is perforated to permit nails I3 to be driven through the same, and thereby fasten the ties to the wall structure 8. The nails F3 are shown as of the double-headed type so that the inner head will serve as a stop to limit the depth to which the nails may be driven, while the outermost heads I4 serve as anchoring members for the mortar, and also render it unnecessary to use nail sets in order to drive the nails or to make the channels of sufficient width to permit a hammer head to enter the same when driving the nails. 7

The extensions or tongues I2 of the ties serve as aligning members since, when placing successive courses of brick, the ties are placed with the ends l2 resting on a lower course. After the ties are nailed in place, a course of bricks is placed in position with the ends of each brick resting on the wings it, which wings maintain the succeeding course of brick in proper vertically spaced relation to preceding courses.

Mortar is filled into thechannels of the tie 5 members, preferably to a depth that will completely imbed the ties so that their outer edges will not be exposed. The mortar will, of course, surround and be interlocked with the nail heads M, and will also flow through the lateral openings 10 I 5 to be still more effectively interlocked with the ties. The mortar which spreads laterally through the openings IE will adhere to the ends of the I bricks and thus hold them in position. The horl-' zontal spaces are filled with mortar as indicated more clearly at l6, and these lines of motar will, of course, form continuations of, and be in effect integral with, the vertical lines of mortar II that lie within the channels. The horizontal lines l6 of mortar will, of course, interlock with the bent back tongues l2 of the ties, and will adhere to the longitudinal edges of the bricks.

Referring now to Figures 5, 6 and 7, I show a tie So that is similar in form to the ties 9, but wherein the flanges are slit and bent laterally in opposite directions at their ends to produce a zig-zag effect that will result in interlocking en gagement with the mortar. The slits may be wide enough that bits of mortar can extend. therethrough into engagement with the adjacent ends of the bricks. The ties may be conveniently formed of sheet metal and be somewhat springy in nature so that the slitted portions ill will frictionally engage bricks and hold them against tilting or falling off of the wings ll previous to placing of the mortar.

It will be understood that various detailed changes may be made in the structure without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, instead of having the perforations in the flanges of the ties of dove-tail form as shown in Figure 4, holes could be punched through such flanges.

I claim:

1. A wall tie adapted to be fastened to a wall in parallelism with the plane of the wall, and provided with laterally-extending wing portions and with a tongue portion projecting beyond the said wing portions. 5o

2. A wall tie having means for affording vertical support to adjacent ends of the bricks and for maintaining the ends thereof in longitudinally-spaced relation, and means for engaging a supporting surface beneath said bricks to hold porting surface, portions of the flanges thereof being bent laterally to serve as vertical supports for bricks, and one end of the tie extending be-,

yond said bent portions to serve as a vertical spacing and alining member, the unbent portions of said flanges having cut-outs through which mortar placed within the channel may protrude.

4. A-mounting for tiles and the like comprising a metallic stripping consisting in a plurality of independent strip units adapted for mounting in spaced relation on a surface to be tiled, each strip having thereon resilient tangs upstanding from the face thereof to define a tileway between cooperating tangs on adjacent mounted strips, whereby in assembly a tile is engaged in mounted position by abutment of its opposite edges against cooperating tangs on adjacent mounted strips and a dimension of the tileway is determined by the spacing of the strips as mounted.

5. A mounting for tile and the like comprising a metallic stripping consisting in a plurality of strip units adapted for mounting in spaced relation on the surface to be tiled, each strip having thereon tile engaging abutments to define a tileway between cooperating abutments on adjacent :edge faces against cooperating mounted, strips, and each strip having a projection cooperating with said abutments to grippingly engage the side faces of the tile and to determine the width of the horizontal mortar joint between adjacent tile.

6. A mounting for tile and the like comprising a plurality of spaced metal tile supporting members adapted for mounting on a surface to be tiled, said members exposing large portions of the surface to be tiled and having thereon resilient upstanding clamps to define a tileway between cooperating clamps on adjacent members, whereby in assembly a tile is yieldingly engaged in mounted position by abutment of its opposite cent members.

'7. A composite veneer slab wall structure comprising a base surface, slab spacing members secured to said base surface exposing large portions of said surface and having resilient means for clamping slabs therebetween, veneer slabs held by said clamping means, and mortar filling the spaces between adjacent slabs, said slab clamping means constituting projections extending away from the wall for engaging the side faces of the slabs and being at least partially embedded in said mortar.

JOSEPH KUBLANOW.

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